preying

英 [ˈpreɪɪŋ]

美 [ˈpreɪɪŋ]

v.  捕食; 掠夺; 折磨
prey的现在分词

现在分词：preying　

BNC.37684

柯林斯词典

• See also:Electric rays stun their prey with huge electrical discharges...These animals were the prey of hyenas.bird of prey
• VERB 捕食；以捕猎…为生
  A creature thatpreys onother creatures lives by catching and eating them.
  1. The effect was to disrupt the food chain, starving many animals and those that preyed on them...
     其结果就是破坏食物链，使很多动物和那些以捕食它们为生的动物饿死。
  2. The larvae prey upon small aphids.
     这种幼虫以小蚜虫为食。
• N-UNCOUNT 伤害的对象；愚弄的对象；欺骗的对象
  You can refer to the people who someone tries to harm or trick as theirprey.
  1. Police officers lie in wait for the gangs who stalk their prey at night...
     警察设伏等待那些在晚上跟踪目标伺机作案的歹徒。
  2. This burglar thought old people are easy prey.
     这个夜贼觉得老人容易下手。
• VERB 欺凌，坑害（尤指弱者）
  If someonepreys onother people, especially people who are unable to protect themselves, they take advantage of them or harm them in some way.
  1. Pam had never learned that there were men who preyed on young runaways...
     帕姆从来不知道有人专门坑骗离家出走的年轻人。
  2. The survey claims loan companies prey on weak families already in debt.
     这项调查声称信贷公司专对那些已经负债的弱势家庭下手。
• VERB 不断困扰；折磨；使耿耿于怀
  If somethingpreys onyour mind, you cannot stop thinking and worrying about it.
  1. The absence of children at Christmas preyed on Liz's mind...
     利兹因为圣诞节时孩子们不在而一直心神不宁。
  2. He had been unwise and it preyed on his conscience.
     他做得不太明智，这一直让他良心不安。
• N-UNCOUNT 受影响；受折磨；受害
  If someone isprey tosomething bad, they have a tendency to let themselves be affected by it.
  1. He was prey to a growing despair...
     他被与日俱增的绝望折磨着。
  2. You were both a prey to compulsions.
     你俩都太冲动了。
• PHRASE 受…控制；成为…的牺牲品；受…的影响
  Tofall prey tosomething bad means to be taken over or affected by it.
  1. On the flight from Paris to Toulon, Mechiche fell prey to panic...
     在从巴黎飞往土伦的航班上，梅希什惊慌失措。
  2. Children in evacuation centres are falling prey to disease.
     疏散中心的孩子正受到疾病的折磨。

双语例句

• This "fear preying on us night and day" crap?
  没日没夜的恐惧是废话吗？
• Child trafficking is about taking children out of their protective environment and preying on their vulnerability for the purpose of exploitation.
  拐卖儿童就是把儿童带出他们受到保护的环境并掠夺他们的弱点，以达到剥削的目的。
• Practically all of the crime I encountered in New York was a preying of the opium-eaters on the working community.
  我在纽约遇到的犯罪现象中，几乎全是瘾君子对劳动群体的劫掠。
• The Irish republican army, organized by Sinn Fein, unleashed a series of violence, such as shoot and explosion, which in turn, had kept preying uponIrelandfor decades.
  原为爱尔兰新芬党武装组织的爱尔兰共和军为争取北、南爱尔兰的统一，发动了一系列枪杀、爆炸等暴力活动。
• When the tools of preying were ameliorated, fox and deer in suburban vanished.
  当捕捉野兽的工具进步后，郊外的狐狸、梅花鹿就消失了。
• Like a preying Falcon and take them away.
  像一只猎鹰一样夺走她们。
• Perfection and Application of New Preying Model of Biological Population Economy
  生物种群经济捕获新模型的完善与应用
• An English ship had roamed the Indian Ocean, preying with impunity upon Portuguese commerce.
  一艘英国船已经漫游了印度洋，肆无忌惮地劫掠了葡萄牙人的商业。
• Unsurprisingly, Mr Summers spent most of the time wailing about the horrors of Wall Street and predatory behaviour of US credit card companies, which have been preying on the ignorance of their customers.
  不出所料，萨默斯大部分时间是在哀叹华尔街的可怕与美国信用卡公司的掠夺行为。他说，它们一直在利用顾客的无知。
• Population dynamics, preying habit, functional response, interference response and pesticide toxicity of Cybocephalus nipponicus were studied.
  本文研究了日本方头甲的种群动态、捕食习性、功能反应、干扰反应与农药毒性。